Improvement in needle-setters for sewing-machines



, WILLIAM RAEUCHLE.

improvement in NeedleSetters for Sewing Machines.

N0 122,490, Patentedlan.2,1872.

mania- J WITNESSES INVENTOR.

WILLIAM RAEUOHLE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN NEEDLE-SETTERS FQR SEWING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,490, dated January2, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in'l'eedle-Setters forSewing-Machines, invented by WILLIAM RAEUOHLE, of the city ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania.

My invention relates to needle-setters for sewing-machines; and consistsin providing their gauge-bars with a projection so shaped and arrangedthat when it is brought against the pressure-bar the eye of the needleshall have its proper range in the machine.

Figure l is a plan view of my improved device. Figs. 2 and 3 areelevations of the same at right angles to each other. Fig. 4 is anelevation of the device, of modified construction. Fig. 5 is an edgeview of ,the same from be neath.

Like letters in all the figures indicate the same parts.

A, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, represents a gauge-bar, which has a notch a, inwhich the upper part of the shank of the needle B is placed. 0 is a bentbar, whose vertical part is adjustable in the socket D of the bar A, andfastened by means of the screw E. In the horizontal part of the said bar0 is a pointed wire, F, which is to enter the eye of the needle B. Thewire is adjustable, and is held in position by means of thetightening-screw G in the projecting end of the bar. H is a spring,whose heel is fast to the bar. The resilient part bears against theneedle to hold it in its position until it is brought into connectionwith the sewing-machine. Then the spring is borne off the needle and thesetter device withdrawn therefrom. The bar A has a projection b, which,when brought against the pressure-bar, brings the eye of the needle inits proper range with the machine.

Figs. 4 and 5 show a device adapted to any one kind of machine, thegauge-bar being bent to hold the pointed wire F, and the wire beingarranged the proper vertical distance from the upper side of the bar toproject the upper end ot'the needle just far enough for connect-ion withthe needlebar.

I claim as my invention- The needle-setter herein described, having itsgauge-bar provided with the projection b, arranged as described forsetting the eye of the needle in its proper range with the machine, asabove set forth.

WILLIAM RAEUCHLE.

W'itnesses THOMAS J. BEwLEY, STEPHEN USTICK. (134)

